Male arrested after random assault at city park

Incident Date:
TB22051135
Location: Thunder Bay

A 42-year-old Thunder Bay man faces an assault charge after the apparent unprovoked and random attack of an elderly woman at a local park Thursday evening.

Thunder Bay Police Service officers with the Primary Response Unit were dispatched to the 100…

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High risk traffic stop leads to drug and gun seizure

Incident Date:
TB22050964
Location: Thunder Bay

A high-risk traffic stop Wednesday evening on Highway 11/17 led to the seizure of drugs and a handgun, and the arrest of six accused from the Greater Toronto Area.

Members of the Thunder Bay Police Service’s Emergency Task Unit conducted a high-risk…

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Manslaughter charge laid in death of senior

Incident Date:
P22040596
Location:

Police charged an elderly woman with manslaughter following a May incident at a long-term care home that led to the death of a 91-year-old resident.

The Thunder Bay Police Service was made aware of a death that occurred at the Bethammi Long-Term…

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Loaded AR-15, drugs seized following traffic stop

Incident Date:
TB22050345
Location: Thunder Bay

Two southern Ontario suspects were arrested following a Saturday morning traffic stop that led to the seizure of illicit drugs and a loaded modified AR-15 assault rifle.

A Thunder Bay Police Service officers with the Primary Response Unit was on…

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UPDATE: Death investigation being treated as homicide

Incident Date:
TB22050234
Location: Thunder Bay

Police are treating a death that occurred in the inter-city area of Thunder Bay Friday afternoon as a homicide.

Thunder Bay Police Service officers with the Primary Response Unit were initially dispatched to the 800-block area of McMillan Street…

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Sudden death under investigation

Incident Date:
TB22050234
Location: Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay Police Service officers with the Primary Response Unit were dispatched to the 800-block area of McMillan Street following a weapons call just after 2:20 p.m. on Friday, July 29.

Police learned the initial incident occurred at a…

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Suspect attacks officer, attempts to grab police firearm

Incident Date:
TB2204899
Location: Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay Police Service officers with the Primary Response Unit were in the area of the 200 block of Pearl Street at about 2 a.m. on Wednesday, July 27.

While officers were in the area they observed a male attempting to kick out the window of an…

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Fentanyl, cocaine and handgun seized following search of southside home

Incident Date:
TB22049999
Location: Thunder Bay

Police located drugs, a firearm, and a device designed to allow a semi-automatic handgun to be fired as an automatic following the search of a Lincoln Street home Wednesday evening.

Members of the Thunder Bay Police Service’s Intelligence Unit…

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Attack and killing of goose leads to animal cruelty charges

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Police arrested a Thunder Bay man who beat a Canada goose to death and threw its carcass in a nearby river Monday evening.

Thunder Bay Police Service officers with the Primary Response Unit were initially dispatched to a foot path in the 1100 block…

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Drugs valued at more than half-a-million dollars seized by Thunder Bay Police

Incident Date:
TB22049110
Location: Thunder Bay

Police have seized more than five kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, along with cocaine and fentanyl, following an ongoing drug trafficking investigation that led to the search of a southside home Thursday.

Thunder Bay Police Service officers…

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